The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of HistoryRowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 375 pages The Time Is Out of Joint handles the Shakespearean oeuvre from a philosophical perspective, finding that Shakespeare's historical dramas reflect on issues and reveal puzzles which were taken up by philosophy proper only in the centuries following them. Shakespeare's extraordinary handling of time and temporality, the difference between truth and fact, that of theory, and that of interpretation and revelatory truth are evaluated in terms of Shakespeare's own conjectural endeavors, and are compared with early modern, modern, and postmodern thought. Heller shows that modernity, which recognized itself in Shakespeare only from the time of Romanticism, found in Shakespeare's work a revelatory character which marked the end of both metaphysical system-building and a tragic reckoning with the inaccessibility of an absolute, timeless truth. Heller distinguishes the four stages found in constantly unique relation in Shakespeare's work (historical, personal, political, and existential) and probes their significance as time comes to fall 'out of joint' and may be again set aright. Rather than initially bestowing upon Shakespeare the dubious honorary title of philosopher, Heller probes the concretely situated reflections of characters who must face a blind and irrational fate either without taking responsibility for the discordance of time, or with a responsibility which may both transform history into politics, and set right the time which is out of joint. In the ruminations and undertakings of these characters, Shakespeare's dramas present a philosophy of history, a political philosophy, and a philosophy of (im)moral personality. Heller weighs each as distinctly modern confrontations with the possibility of truth and virtue within a human historical condition no less multifarious for its momentariness. |
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... 117 8 Virtues and Vices : Guilt , Good , and Evil 143 Part II : The History Plays 9 Richard II 163 10 1 , 2 , and 3 Henry VI 191 11 The Tragedy of King Richard III 253 Part III : Three Roman Plays 12 Coriolanus 281 13 vii Introduction.
... 117 8 Virtues and Vices : Guilt , Good , and Evil 143 Part II : The History Plays 9 Richard II 163 10 1 , 2 , and 3 Henry VI 191 11 The Tragedy of King Richard III 253 Part III : Three Roman Plays 12 Coriolanus 281 13 vii Introduction.
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... tragedies and history plays , and in many of the comedies as well . In the great tragedies , and in some of the history plays ( in 1 , 2 , and 3 Henry VI , for example ) , the time is out of joint absolutely . One can be born to put it ...
... tragedies and history plays , and in many of the comedies as well . In the great tragedies , and in some of the history plays ( in 1 , 2 , and 3 Henry VI , for example ) , the time is out of joint absolutely . One can be born to put it ...
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... tragedy ) , and although it has been attempted after him ( in the tragédie classique or in modern tragedy ) , the attempts have not been success- ful . Shakespeare's dramas present their own philosophy of history , political philosophy ...
... tragedy ) , and although it has been attempted after him ( in the tragédie classique or in modern tragedy ) , the attempts have not been success- ful . Shakespeare's dramas present their own philosophy of history , political philosophy ...
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... or not . We know that Marlowe read some of them , but we do not know if Shakespeare did . Machiavelli's name is mentioned by Gloucester ( in The Tragedy of Richard III ) in the spir- it of a one - sided and - for a. 4 Introduction.
... or not . We know that Marlowe read some of them , but we do not know if Shakespeare did . Machiavelli's name is mentioned by Gloucester ( in The Tragedy of Richard III ) in the spir- it of a one - sided and - for a. 4 Introduction.
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... tragedy is played out . I do , however , have a friend who is just like Coriolanus . He is in fact Cori- olanus ... tragedies , as " tragedies of destiny . " As Hegel observed , being a character is not identical with being an individual ...
... tragedy is played out . I do , however , have a friend who is just like Coriolanus . He is in fact Cori- olanus ... tragedies , as " tragedies of destiny . " As Hegel observed , being a character is not identical with being an individual ...
Table des matières
What Is Nature? What Is Natural? | 13 |
Who Am I? Dressing Up Stripping Naked | 31 |
Acting Playing Pretending Disguising | 55 |
The Absolute Strangers | 73 |
Judgment of Human Character To Betray and to Be Betrayed | 87 |
Love Sex Subversion Political Drama Family Drama | 97 |
The Sphinx Called Time | 115 |
Virtues and Vices Guilt Good and Evil | 141 |
Richard II | 161 |
1 2 and 3 Henry VI | 189 |
The Tragedy of King Richard III | 251 |
THREE ROMAN PLAYS | 277 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 335 |
Historical Truth and Poetic Truth | 333 |
About the Author | 341 |
THE HISTORY PLAYS | 159 |
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